Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.